17 Injured, 1 Killed As Fire Guts Borno IDP Camp

A fire incident has been reported at the Kalari Muna Elbadawy Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp, Maiduguri, Borno.

No fewer than seventeen people reportedly sustained varying degrees of injury in the inferno that claimed one life.

The incident was confirmed to newsmen in a statement released by the National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA) on Friday, Naija News reports.

The NEMA and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) are said to have visited the camp to assess damages caused by the inferno which reportedly started from a cooking fire in one of the IDP tents.

Naija News learnt that the fire had started at about 1 pm on Friday.

A statement released by the Principal Information Officer NEMA North-East, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, revealed that about 100 shelters were destroyed, while dozens of households in the camps were displaced as a result of the incident.

The fire, however, has since been brought under control by the personnel of the State Fire Service.

Ibrahim explained that the injured victims had been administered first aid.

The IDP fire incident was reported hours after a top commander of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP), Mallam Buba Danfulani, was gunned down by troops of the Nigerian Army.

Naija News reports that Danfulani and some ISWAP fighters were killed by an airstrike conducted by the Nigerian military along the fringes of Lake Chad in Borno State on Sunday, February 13.

The ISWAP leader was said to be in a meeting with his lieutenants when the airstrike was executed at the East of Madayi in the Kukawa Local Government Area of the state.

It was learned that Danfulani was in charge of the deployment of spies, collection of taxes and levies, and also acted as an intermediary between the ISWAP leadership and newly recruit terrorists.